Author: seven.7diamonds

Strange how we remember the times we got drunk and can’t recall the last time we had pizza. Is it important to keep these in mind? Every drunk is a trophy and we hang them up on our ego like a mantle. To sit and admire? Conversation piece? Something to be proud of? Wave your flags and March to the sad tune. The Death March. Our crushed egos will rise back up from the dead and see a sign of life again. Ourselves. Fresh from the warm dying embers and keep the eternal flame burning. Recognize the value we have hidden inside of us and be aware of the importance and the personal rewards we experience at the start of each day to display it like a flag you are proud to raise and let people see it when they see walking around. You will have the constant feeling of respect for your life. Living sober is respecting your life placing a value on others and yourself. People who live depressed feel they have lost it all but some don’t look for value to replace what they lost. Stop before this happens and a sober life is a value in itself. Let it grow into a quality life and be something special inside of you and inside other people around you. Keep it growing and enjoy the daily harvest. I know that booze is a fungus that will kill it off. Fungus cannot kill off sobriety. Being sober is the only thing that will improve us with a good diet everyday and exercise. You can’t have all this and be a boozer too. Respect the good life only you can create. Adding disrespect and disgrace to your life is abuse of the worst kind. When you feel like a fool you know something is totally wrong and needs to be corrected.

Sobriety is the only way to put value and honor back into your life.

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I’m in with in crowd. I go where the in crowd goes. I know what the in crowd knows. We breeze up and down the street. We get respect from the people we meet. The in crowd is out of sight. We got our own way of walking. We got our own way of talking. I don’t care where you’ve been. You ain’t been nowhere until you’ve been in with the in crowd. The in crowd is the sober crowd. A group of really cool do your thing group of guys. If you ain’t sober,you ain’t there. Other guys imitate us. But the original’s still the greatest. Get in with the sober in crowd. And be one of the greatest.

The in crowd. Song by Dobie Gray. 1963

July 26,1940-December 6, 2011. age 71

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Many people don’t know that the reason we go into depression is because of our own disappointment. Lack of faith. Lack of trust. Full of doubt. Convinced we will fail at all of our attempts. More depression with the feeling of being left behind. There are far worse things in life than being left behind. Don’t watch life pass us by. Make important changes to improve ourselves. Addictions thrive on failure. The longer we use them the more we fail. One dose at a time. We travel so far down that road we may lose our way back. Lost wandering in the middle of nowhere. Lose our mind,body and soul. The lost soul. That’s us. Find our way out of the addictions nightmare and live peaceful. Live sober. Living each day with the good feeling that you left addictions behind you. Waking up not having to find and use them ever again. Tired of feeling all worn out and not worth two cents? There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For me living a life of sobriety feels like I have found it.

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Many boring times the story has been told. “I’ll quit drinking when I’m dead.” Sounds like the typical drinker. Makes for a dull life. The story repeats itself for years like an echo. Worn out scenarios about a stuffy life. Similar to sitting in a broom closet. The seagulls,the beach, the waves flopping in all day long. Orchestra of the sea. Each wave singing their own tune. Time to walk out of the broom closet and see a better life. Sobriety has a certain hidden loyalty contained within. Have to be loyal to being sober to understand why. Now it’s time to write a new book. Telling the world how much better life is being sober. Filling the printed page with your intelligence. Explaining the easy steps on how to become you. It all begins with loyalty to sobriety and making a solemn promise to yourself.

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Sometimes funny stories contain a serious lesson. Embarrassing to admit they apply to our lives.

A friend once told me. I’m standing here broke. Spent all my money drinking and the bartender rolls around the corner with a brand new car that I helped pay for. Quit addictions and own a car of your own.

He also told me. I don’t understand it. The dog is out in the backyard chained up. And they have me out on the loose. The dog is more tame than I am. Ever notice how happy the dog is at home? Stay home and be happy too.

Backyard firepits is where friends and marshmallows get toasted. At the same time. Learning to cook is a good thing. Making ourselves the main course is a little ridiculous. We become the toast of the town.

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You gotta make like you wanna kneel and pray

Then a little bit of soul will come your way

When your girl is gone and you’re broken in two

You need a little bit of soul to see you through

As you go through life trying to reach your goal

Just remember what I said about a little bit of soul

Little bit of soul. Song by the music explosion 1967

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We talked about things getting better. But they still looked the same to me. Could be a nearsighted heart seeing what it wants to see. Take me to the highway. Take me far from here. These days I’m not seeing anything too clear. I need another point of view. Someplace I’ve never seen. Keeping my eyes wide open. I’ve been looking for an answer and I’ve got a long way to go. But when I reach that place I know I’ll find what I’m looking for.

Take me to the highway. Song by the doobie brothers. 1989

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We all stand together with a similar identity with whom we follow and learn from. We need a light to help us find the road to take us to our destiny. Leaders like authors and composers to teach us the beginning steps. Leaders to guide us into an ethical life. Pirates will lead us into a life of misery. Addictions starts this way. By a person or a description that had hidden warnings we could not find or wasn’t told. Their intentions are to leave out the truth to trick us to follow them into deception. We all trust people in life and sometimes we have bad results. Someone comes along and shows us where the deception was hidden. We begin again the proper way and slowly merge into a sensible life. We leave the dark side of the addictions life and into the light to see our future ahead of us.

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The many years of my sobriety is hard to believe at times. A good feeling knowing how long it’s been. People have asked me if those stories are right. The truth is they are. The good feeling being sober. Seems like a dream sometimes. Hypnotized is a calm focused state. The feeling keeps on coming. I wouldn’t stop it if I could.

Now you know it’s a meaningless question. To ask if those stories are right. Because what matters most is the feeling you get when you’re hypnotized. Seems like a dream they got me hypnotized.

Hypnotized. A song by Fleetwood Mac 1973

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A paupers cemetery beside the dusty road. Years have passed since the gravestones were clearly in view. Someone who cared for the elements of the living is clearly their sense of duty. Occasional curiosities about the lives of the mysterious occupants resting there. Long gone but never completely forgotten. Concern from a stranger the live person never gave himself. Strolling through the rows of the present state of death and the fine trimmed lawns. Some names have faded including the word unknown on a few markers. Along with the memories of the kind souls who put him there to rest. Resting in a paupers grave is not the worst thing. Shows caring toward the poor. When he was alive little concern to visit him. The church groups stop to recite a prayer for the lost soul. All that remains is a brief statement of his life on his gravestone as a truth to the world. A lesson learned and encouraged to never repeat it.

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